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Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr]
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Bob Bobeck |
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Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr] |
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Tue, 7 Jan 2014 23:14:25 -0500 |
I think it's more like Dumbledwarf. He gets killed in the end. Bwahahhahaha.
On 1/7/14, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> Emacs _is_ one of the old great ones. You are trying to make Gandalf
> more popular by plucking his nose hairs.
>
> It's not a good analogy. People can like Gandalf as a character
> without having to learn lots of incantations.
>
> Learning Emacs is never going to be easy. But we might be able
> to change Emacs so that learning it is a little less hard,
> and that would be a substantial improvement.
>
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
> President, Free Software Foundation
> 51 Franklin St
> Boston MA 02110
> USA
> www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
> Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
> Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.
>
>
>
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], (continued)
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], David Kastrup, 2014/01/07
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Lennart Borgman, 2014/01/07
- Great Old One?, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/07
- Re: Great Old One?, Bob Bobeck, 2014/01/07
- Re: Great Old One?, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2014/01/08
- Re: Great Old One?, Jay Belanger, 2014/01/07
- Re: Great Old One?, Joel Mccracken, 2014/01/07
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Richard Stallman, 2014/01/07
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr],
Bob Bobeck <=
- Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/01/07
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Lennart Borgman, 2014/01/07
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Yuri Khan, 2014/01/07
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/01/07
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Lennart Borgman, 2014/01/07
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Jose E. Marchesi, 2014/01/07
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Per Starbäck, 2014/01/09
- RE: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Drew Adams, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Per Starbäck, 2014/01/09
- RE: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Drew Adams, 2014/01/09